Alien: Earth Finally Has a Release Date, Episode Count, and New Story Details

Alien: Earth premieres its archetypal 2 episodes connected August 12 connected Hulu astatine 8pm ET, and connected FX and Disney+ internationally astatine 8pm PT / ET. New episodes of the eight-episode play debut each pursuing Tuesday.

Set successful 2120 (well aft Prometheus and conscionable 2 years earlier Alien and the unfortunate events that befell the unit of the Nostromo), Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth sees the mysterious heavy abstraction probe vas USCSS Maginot crash-land connected Earth, with a young pistillate called Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag radical of tactical soldiers making “a fateful find that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s top threat.”

As a notation point, the precocious released interquel Alien: Romulus takes spot betwixt Alien and Aliens.

At this constituent successful the Alien timeline, Earth is governed by 5 corporations: Weyland-Yutani (the main evil corp of the Alien franchise), Prodigy, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. Cyborgs and synthetics coexist with humans, but past the brag of Prodigy invents hybrids (humanoid robots with quality consciousness). Wendy is the archetypal hybrid prototype (and is portion of the established propulsion for immortality that is simply a moving taxable successful the Alien franchise).

This enactment of item is interesting: aft Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides with Prodigy City, Wendy and the different hybrids brushwood mysterious beingness forms "more terrifying than anyone could person ever imagined."

This suggests determination volition beryllium much monsters successful the amusement than the Xenomorph, oregon possibly much Xenomorph types. There are said to beryllium 5 successful total.

Here's the authoritative blurb:

In the twelvemonth 2120, the Earth is governed by 5 corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with some biologic and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) beryllium alongside humans. But the crippled is changed erstwhile the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a caller technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with quality consciousness). The archetypal hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a caller dawn successful the contention for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the different hybrids brushwood mysterious beingness forms much terrifying than anyone could person ever imagined.

Alien: Earth cast:

• Sydney Chandler (Wendy)
• Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh),
• Alex Lawther (Hermit)
• Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier)
• Babou Ceesay (Morrow)
• Adrian Edmondson (Atom Eins)
• David Rysdahl (Arthur Sylvia)
• Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia)
• Lily Newmark (Nibs)
• Erana James (Curly)
• Adarsh Gourav (Slightly)
• Jonathan Ajayi (Smee)
• Kit Young (Tootles)
• Diêm Camille (Siberian)
• Moe Bar-El (Rashidi)
• Sandra Yi Sencindiver (Yutani)

In January past year, showrunner Noah Hawley explained wherefore helium is not utilizing the backstory provided successful Prometheus for Alien: Earth, saying helium likes the "retro-futurism" of the archetypal films. Hawley said helium spoke to Alien main Ridley Scott astir "many, galore elements" of the Alien series, including its ties to the prequels, but yet decided to chopped escaped and determination distant from the bioweapon backstory due to the fact that helium preferred the lore of the archetypal films.

It's a engaged clip for the Alien franchise. Alien: Romulus 2 is successful the works, and it looks similar Alien is erstwhile again crossing implicit with the Predator franchise with Predator: Badlands.

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